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Helmut Newton: Unseen

3 August 2017 0

Helmut Newton is represented by original prints in various formats from the three key genres of fashion, portraiture, and nudes. Selected from the foundation’s archive, they have for the most part not been previously shown. These complement Newton’s well-known work…

Rafael Rojas: Timeless

2 August 2017 0

“Timeless” is an exclusive monograph of fine art photography in black and white of the city of Venice, by fine artist Rafael Rojas, Master Hasselblad 2014 photographer. The photographic plates contained in the book tackle the subject matter from an…

Massimiliano Camellini: Al di là dell’acqua

1 August 2017 0

“Al di là dell’acqua” presents 14 artworks by the photographer Massimiliano Camellini. The exhibition is the result of a long-standing photographic project that took place over a period of four years and which examined the interiors of a large number…

The Dark Carnival: Portraits from the Endless Night

29 July 2017 0

For some, heaven will not be a perpetual dawn but rather an endless night – an eternity of the wild hours between dusk and sunrise.The Dark Carnival is a celebration of human beings given the rare space to play out…

Renato D’Agostin: 7439 MILES TO (RE)DISCOVER AMERICA!

26 July 2017 0

No American road trip looms larger in our collective consciousness than the one bound west, and has been both the favorite subject and a formidable challenge for most artists, from Robert Frank to Jack Kerouac. In 2015, Italian-born photographer Renato…

Robert Frank: Hold Still, Keep Going

25 July 2017 0

Hold Still, Keep Going is the long-awaited reprint of the catalogue to Robert Frank’s (born 1924) 2001 exhibition at the Museum Folkwang in Essen. Though the artist is best known for his seminal photobook The Americans (1959) and his experimental…

Mark Perrott: Ancient Ink

23 July 2017 0

Photographer Mark Perrott has spent the past several decades documenting the ever-expanding tribe of tattooed Americans. He began his study at Island Avenue Tattoo in Pittsburgh, PA in 1979, and since then has explored tattoo parlors all across America. In…

Bastiaan Woudt: In and Out of Focus

22 July 2017 0

Bastiaan Woudt has seen a meteoric rise within the world of contemporary photography. After starting his own photography practice from scratch a mere five years ago, with no experience or formal training, he has developed into a photographer with his…

Schilte & Portielje – Photoworks Beyond Reality Vol. II

21 July 2017 0

Schilte&Portielje create subtle work with a magical aura that can not be read immediately. The large and small photographic images are black and white, with a gradated range of grey tones that seem to be drawn with chalk. By opting…

Sebastião Salgado: A Life in Photography

20 July 2017 0

Spanning the entirety of Salgado’s career, with sixty images on view from 1978 through 2014, the chronologic installation at Peter Fetterman Gallery will showcase iconic prints and new acquisitions culled from the myriad of socio-political topics, cultures and conflicts explored…

Sibylle Bergemann: Eine retrospektive Werkschau

19 July 2017 0

From 1967 onwards, Bergemann worked as a freelance photographer und created numerous reportages, fashion spreads and portraits for art and culture magazines in the GDR, such as Sonntag and Sibylle. After German unification, she worked for magazines like GEO, Die…

Melvin Sokolsky: Imagination in Flight

18 July 2017 0

Gilman Contemporary celebrates iconic photographer Melvin Sokolsky with a retrospective of photographs by the illustrious artist. His work is characterized by his sense of fantasy and invention, surrealism and illusion. Sokolsky was born and raised in New York City where…

Gabriele Croppi – New York: Metaphysics of the Urban Landscape

17 July 2017 0

Throughout the 20th century we have seen every form of landscape, nude, and other genre captured in gelatin silver and platinum prints by scores of brilliant artists. But to produce innovative black-and-white images in the 21st century that reveal something…

Forging a Modern Society – Photography and Corporate Communication in the Industrial Age (1911-1937)

16 July 2017 0

“Forging a modern society” showcases a collection of glass plate negatives and positives from an industrial archive and pieces together the journey they have taken over time. These photographs from the era of industrialisation, discovered in 2007 at the Lycée…

Kevin Horan: Chattel

14 July 2017 0

If the photographer’s ungulate neighbors came to the studio and asked to have their portraits made, this is what would happen. Treated as portrait subjects, they seem to have personalities. Perhaps they do, and the photograph allows us to see…

Edward Quinn: Riviera Cocktail

13 July 2017 0

The French Riviera of the Fifties was an exciting place with much change in the air. Rock and roll and the bikini, existentialism and the atom bomb. Edward Quinn chronicled a playground that was influenced by international trends, but very…

In Treno Verso l’Europa. Gabriele Basilico

12 July 2017 0

The exhibition presents, for the first time, the Gabierle Basilico’s work, achieved in 1993 and commissioned by the Italian State Railway. Following train stations itineraries, he created a geographic journey, but also a journey across time and the most recent…